Hands of Inge

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A short film with the title Hands of Inge. There is a release print (2012.79.1.9.1a) and a work print (2012.79.1.9.2a) of the film, both of which are on 16mm black-and-white acetate stock with sound. The film opens with close-ups of Hardison's hands as she displays some tools, cuts a piece of metal, and begins the process of making clay for sculpture. The next scene shows her hands working with metal wire and wood and using wire cutters as she twists the metal around another object. At this point in the film, the narration by Ossie Davis begins. He introduces Hardison and then the camera shot pulls back to show her working on a sculpture on a waist-high table. All the materials from the previous scene appear to have been used in the sculpture she is working on. The camera shot returns to a close-up of her hands as she molds the clay around the wire.

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